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hey weather watch team,
hope you are doing great! Got a photo shoot tomorrow at Matakana, is it looking like thick cloud all day or do you think we'll get a few moments of sunshine breaking through?
Thanks and happy Friday! Briar

Hi there, no quite the opposite - at least for the first half. We're seeing a lot of high pressure and while some showers around this Sunday and maybe next week on one or two days the general trend is for the first two weeks of May to be much drier than usual. However we can't yet clearly see the second half but some signs are that the sub-tropics will be waking up but over NZ it looks like more high pressure at this stage.

Hi there. I’m really just scratching for any glimmer of hope. I’m going anyway so I guess it doesn’t matter too much but is there any hope of some fine patches on Sunday near Opito? Be great if I could do the lawns! I’m staying Monday too which seems much better. Any good news? Cheers

Hi there, there is a bit of rain around this weekend but also a lot of dry weather too. The rain is intense in one small area (currently forecast to be over Coromandel Peninsula maybe). Assuming you're asking about Auckland, but yes some rain with winds variable (due to the low moving in). Winds don't look overly strong. We'll have full details in our next video out around noon Thursday.

Weather seems to be changing a fair amount with this low for the weekend, at this stage perhaps Sunday if you are lucky although they may sit more offshore about Great Barrier Island and the Coromandel.

Can't see how it says showers becoming few and far between yet other sites and rain maps are showing rain all day. Your forecasts have become really inaccurate lately I have noticed and it is quite frustrating.

Forecasts change buddy, especially the further you go out into the future. Like I said above it seems quite changeable with this low coming up. No doubt some aspects of the above forecasts could change again by the time Sunday comes around so some things at this point in time may become irrelevant and you could be arguing over nothing. But anyway......

Help! My partner and I planned a hike in Port Charles Coromandel area this Saturday but weather is conflicting between you guys and metservice. We're not game to drive all the way in just to see - do you have any suggestions why it's so conflicting and which forecast to consider for planning?
Cheers!

Hi there, If we all had the exact same forecast there would be no need for competition for us to exist! We don't comment on the accuracy of MetService public forecasts, we only monitor our own. The forecast at this stage for Port Charles area is mostly dry with windy westerlies. Perhaps a shower but that risk currently looks mainly further down towards Thames.

Thanks Aaron, yes that helps. I have a young wild bird to release soon that I rescued a few weeks ago and he has only just grown his flight feathers back so was hoping to make it as easy as possible for him to fly! Regards Sue

Hi,
I know its a long way out, but any rough ball park idea of likely rain or not on Sat 28th evening ?? Wouldn't hold you to it of course, but even a possible indication would be helpful.
thanks heaps

Hi there, thanks for the challenging question :) Ok, at this stage it looks as though we'll have a big high exiting New Zealand to the east around then and allowing a possible developing rain maker to move in perhaps around the 28th or 29th. It appears it will be all down to the timing of that high and when it departs the country. If the high is a little slow to move on then the dry/sunnier weather lingers longer, if the high zips away quickly then it could be showery or wet. Hope that's somewhat helpful!

Metservice has some recent information like that if you click on say "Auckland" for example and scroll down the page you'll see recent information. Beyond that (i.e. older stats) you will have to contact metservice or niwa directly to get that info.

Hi there, apologies for this but it seems to be a technical issue with the data feed. We've logged this and also put a temporary fix in so you can see at least see something current from the region in that space :) Cheers.- WW

We were all woken to a very very loud bang, shook the house can thunder just go off once like this? It was raining heavily and blowing a gale, yet half an hour later it’s eerily quiet and still. Still freaked out haha. Thank you